Honorable Ron Wyden
United States Senator, Oregon, Democrat
Senator Wyden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1980 to 1996. He serves on the following committees: Budget; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Special Committee on Aging; and Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the January 15 and January 23, 2003, Senate floor debate on the Omnibus Appropriations bill. As the Senate moves to the spending bill, I rise to discuss briefly an amendment I will be offering that would limit the scope of the Office of…
